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Melvin Jules Bukiet

Melvin Jules Bukiet is a novelist and professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

A Year to Forget

A Year to Forget

Drop 2020, and live in a year worth remembering

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Monday, May 04, 2020
By the Content of Its Characters

By the Content of Its Characters

On rereading “War and Peace” in the age of radical sensitivity

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Friday, February 03, 2017
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One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet

A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Thursday, March 01, 2007
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Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Saturday, September 01, 2007
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Custom and Law

After the death of his father, a not-notably observant Jew turns to the mourning rituals of his faith

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Thursday, September 01, 2005

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Buoyancy

by Willard Spiegelman

As the heat of summer drags on, we eagerly await the day we can comfortably return to our favorite beaches and pools—in the meantime, we’re rereading Willard Spiegelman’s 2008 ode to swimming.

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